The Incubus

Ratings & Reviews

Ratings & Reviews

So clearly has a Cassavettes influence, as if he could hide behind another camera and try something different. Yet it's still laser-focused on the vagaries and idiosyncrasies of human nature; on the disconnect between what we say and the way we say it; the inner perversities that masquerade in the telling. It just happens to be a B-movie about a particularly rapey Incubus. I think it cuts deep, on its own terms.

Enjoyable and intriguingly off-centre early 80s horror, elevated by some excellent and inventively shot death scenes and a splendid performance from John Cassevetes. A slightly disappointing final third but that final shot is superbly merciless!

A dull third act redeems itself beyond the heights of the first hour, a disturbing rape-murder demon spree in a small town, with a jaw-dropping revelation. Cruel in the way slasher films should be. It's too bad 1986 had to happen...